The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry concerns a property called chirality, which may sound like an abstract science term but is ...

Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50/50 ...

Henri B. Kagan and Kensō Soai win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on nonlinear effects and asymmetric ...

It is for progress towards understanding how such asymmetry might have come about that Henri Kagan, of the University of ...

Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or translations, much like the distinct left and right hands of a human. In chiral ...

This module has been designed to introduce second-year organic chemistry students to the concepts of stereochemistry through the lens of the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential ...

Some molecules exist in two forms, such that their structures and their mirror images are not superimposable, like our left and right hands. Called chirality, it is a property these molecules have due ...